10.12.2010

sustainable agriculture in South Kivu

TED Fellow Alex Petroff of Working Villages International discusses a sustainable agriculture project in Ruzizi, South Kivu. In three minutes:

Other than the last part (Yachting? Seriously?), I found this an interesting model of the ways that best practices from around the world can be integrated into local contexts while using local expertise. What do you think?

2 Comments:

So let me get this straight: a foreigner comes into South Kivu with lots of capital and seeds and he starts a big plantation. He came to help the "starving" local population learn how to farm. What is so special about this, other than its neo-colonial overtones?